13-letter words containing d, s
- good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
- good old days — past times viewed with nostalgia
- good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
- good shepherd — Jesus Christ. John 10:11–14.
- goods service — a transport service in which goods are sent by train from one location to another
- goods station — a railway station dealing solely with goods trains
- goodwin sands — a line of shoals at the N entrance to the Strait of Dover, off the SE coast of England. 10 miles (16 km) long.
- gordon setter — one of a Scottish breed of medium-sized setters having a black-and-tan coat.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- graham island — an island in the Pacific Ocean, in W British Columbia, Canada: largest and northernmost of the Queen Charlotte Islands. 2485 sq. mi. (6436 sq. km).
- gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
- gran paradiso — the highest peak in the Graian Alps, in N Italy. 13,324 feet (4061 meters).
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grand marshal — marshal (def 8).
- grand passion — an intense or overwhelming attraction or love.
- grand slammer — Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
- grandad shirt — a long-sleeved collarless shirt
- grandiloquous — grandiloquent
- grandioseness — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandma moses — Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses") 1860–1961, U.S. painter.
- grandstanding — the main seating area of a stadium, racetrack, parade route, or the like, usually consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats.
- grants-in-aid — a subsidy furnished by a central government to a local one to help finance a public project, as the construction of a highway or school.
- graphics card — graphics adaptor
- grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
- great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
- great goddess — The, a vaguely defined deity symbolizing maternity, the fertility of the earth, and femininity in general; the central figure in the religions of ancient Anatolia, the Near East, and the eastern Mediterranean, later sometimes taking the form of a specific goddess, as Cybele, Rhea, or Demeter.
- green goddess — an army fire engine
- greenland sea — a part of the Arctic Ocean, NE of Greenland and N of Iceland.
- grimes golden — a yellow variety of apple that ripens in late autumn.
- gros de tours — a ribbed silk fabric made with a two- or three-ply warp interlaced with organzine and tram filling.
- ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
- ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
- ground troops — soldiers positioned on the ground
- groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
- groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
- groundstrokes — Plural form of groundstroke.
- groundworkers — Plural form of groundworker.
- guard against — prevent
- gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
- gunshot wound — bullet injury caused by a firearm
- gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
- haberdasher's — a shop that sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, zips, and ribbons
- haemodialyses — Plural form of haemodialysis.
- haemodialysis — (medicine) the use of dialysis to remove waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- hairdressings — Plural form of hairdressing.
- half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
- half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- half-finished — ended or completed.